US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld speaking at a meeting with students in Germany Wednesday said that Iran is fast approaching a point where it may have nuclear weapons, although it did not appear to have any at present.
Rumsfeld, on a brief visit to Germany to attend an anniversary ceremony at a Pentagon-run German security policy centre, also said the United States would not tolerate attempts by Iran to promote a religious government in Iraq.
"The intelligence community in the United States and around the world currently assess that Iran does not have nuclear weapons," he was quoted as saying by Reuters. "The assessment is that they do have a very active program and are likely to have nuclear weapons in a relatively short period of time." (Albawaba.com)
